In a few instances near the summits of the hills, the forest trees become so scattered, as to disclose here and there a rude mass, or a perpendicular precipice of gray sandstone, or compact limestone, the prevailing rocks in all this region.
Impressions and casts of the shells of submarine animals are seen in the rocks, forming the sides of the cave, as in all the strata of compact limestone, in this region.
The soil is firm and gravelly, being based on horizontal strata of compact limestone, and fine argillaceous sandstone.
It occurs in veins and cavities, in compact limestone, most commonly in the form of flattened prisms.
I found it to consist of a dark, compact limestone, imbedding masses of chalcedony and calcareous spar.
These knobs, wherever observed, bear the indubitable marks of secondary formation, and may be stated to consist, essentially, of compact limestone resting on sandstone.
The central and western parts of the island contain two formations of compact limestone; one of clayey sandstone and another of gypsum.
This tertiary stratum is composed of alternate beds of calcareous conglomerate, compact limestone, marl, and clay, containing selenite and lamellar gypsum.
The waters, which are loaded with sulphuretted hydrogen, issue from a quartzose sandstone, lying on compact limestone, the same as that we had examined at the Morro.
The bays and inlets are separated from the sea by beaches composed of rolled pieces of compact limestone; and which, although they are in places only a few yards across, are several miles in length.
This specimen, which is well exhibited in the engraving, is carved from a compact limestone.
Both articles are composed of a compact limestone, the surface of which was originally highly polished.
The engraving very well represents the original, which is delicately carved from a compact limestone.
On going deeper, the rock again graduated into a compact limestone, very hard, and of a bluish gray colour, in which were frequently found small cavities studded over with minute pyramids of limpid quartz.
A few miles west of the Rapids of the Canadian, a thin stratum of compact limestone, of the common blue variety, and abounding in organized remains, overlays the argillaceous sandstone of the coal formation.
When it has not been modified, it is usually found in sedimentary rocks in the state of compact limestone, of coarse limestone, or of earthy limestone such as chalk.
They consist essentially of a compact limestone, of a greyish-blue, and even black colour.
When its texture is close, and the crystallization scarcely apparent, it is compact limestone.
The carboniferous limestone is a dark-colored, compact limestone, forming the base of the system, and reposing on the old red sandstone.
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